Dr Hannah Fluck
@hannahfluck.bsky.social
#Archaeology for a #biodiversitycrisis, #heritage for a #climate positive future. Optimist. #Pleistocene archaeologist, rugby coach, knitter, former public servant, now doing what I can in a large #conservation NGO with #landusechange and IRO research.
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Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities.
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There has always been a culture -sized hole in UN climate negotiations: Will COP30 Help Fill It?
To get climate action back on track, COP30 must urgently address the cultural enablers and barriers to transformative change
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November 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities.
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
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Looking for a Christmas gift that actually feels different? Give the gift of discovery with a CBA Membership. 🎁
Perfect for anyone who loves the past, stories or exploring places. Membership unlocks a world of archaeology all year round 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/support-us/gift-subscriptions.html
Perfect for anyone who loves the past, stories or exploring places. Membership unlocks a world of archaeology all year round 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/support-us/gift-subscriptions.html
Gift CBA Membership
Why not feed someone’s passion for the past by gifting them a CBA membership. A membership is the ideal present for any archaeology professional, student, or enthusiast in your life.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Looking for a Christmas gift that actually feels different? Give the gift of discovery with a CBA Membership. 🎁
Perfect for anyone who loves the past, stories or exploring places. Membership unlocks a world of archaeology all year round 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/support-us/gift-subscriptions.html
Perfect for anyone who loves the past, stories or exploring places. Membership unlocks a world of archaeology all year round 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/support-us/gift-subscriptions.html
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Find out more about how we care for these special places: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/our-cause/hi...
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Find out more about how we care for these special places: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/our-cause/hi...
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These hillforts are managed in a way that strikes the balance between protecting archaeological features, as well as making space for nature.
And they're not only largely Scheduled Monuments, but also Sites of Special Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and National Nature Reserves (NNR).
And they're not only largely Scheduled Monuments, but also Sites of Special Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and National Nature Reserves (NNR).
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
These hillforts are managed in a way that strikes the balance between protecting archaeological features, as well as making space for nature.
And they're not only largely Scheduled Monuments, but also Sites of Special Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and National Nature Reserves (NNR).
And they're not only largely Scheduled Monuments, but also Sites of Special Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and National Nature Reserves (NNR).
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The layout of hillforts with their steep ramparts and ditches means they’ve never been intensively farmed. These ancient landscapes have, by virtue of their formation and position, evolved into outstanding habitats supporting rare, beautiful wildflowers, butterflies and birds.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The layout of hillforts with their steep ramparts and ditches means they’ve never been intensively farmed. These ancient landscapes have, by virtue of their formation and position, evolved into outstanding habitats supporting rare, beautiful wildflowers, butterflies and birds.
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It’s #HillfortsWednesday!
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It’s #HillfortsWednesday!
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
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Tess doing doing such good work on mining PAS data for the stories they fail to tell about the impact of unregulated metal detecting. The figures on exports are staggering and hidden in sight.
The system is broken and overdue significant reform
The system is broken and overdue significant reform
My latest piece of writing - looking at Export Licences, detecting tourism, etc and pulling together some of the earlier figures.
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
Going… going… gone overseas?
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract With the boom in detecting tourism, and with mass detecting rallies being held across the UK, increasin…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tess doing doing such good work on mining PAS data for the stories they fail to tell about the impact of unregulated metal detecting. The figures on exports are staggering and hidden in sight.
The system is broken and overdue significant reform
The system is broken and overdue significant reform
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OK...I need someone to check my maths here.
This really is that 1/3 of the number of finds found in any one year & c.6% of the number of annual Treasure finds were exported in 2023?
The data is all from the 2023 PAS report.
Seriously, I'm not imagining this, am I?
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#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
This really is that 1/3 of the number of finds found in any one year & c.6% of the number of annual Treasure finds were exported in 2023?
The data is all from the 2023 PAS report.
Seriously, I'm not imagining this, am I?
😮
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
OK...I need someone to check my maths here.
This really is that 1/3 of the number of finds found in any one year & c.6% of the number of annual Treasure finds were exported in 2023?
The data is all from the 2023 PAS report.
Seriously, I'm not imagining this, am I?
😮
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
This really is that 1/3 of the number of finds found in any one year & c.6% of the number of annual Treasure finds were exported in 2023?
The data is all from the 2023 PAS report.
Seriously, I'm not imagining this, am I?
😮
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
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"... inviting artists, organisations & creative agencies to submit proposals that breathe life into the wood saved from the felled tree. This extraordinary opportunity will see up to 5 artists receive funding to develop their ideas, with 1 final concept selected in early 2026." tinyurl.com/3pamneuv
Creative commission Sycamore Gap
We're inviting artists to submit proposals that will breathe life into the wood saved from the felled Sycamore Gap tree.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"... inviting artists, organisations & creative agencies to submit proposals that breathe life into the wood saved from the felled tree. This extraordinary opportunity will see up to 5 artists receive funding to develop their ideas, with 1 final concept selected in early 2026." tinyurl.com/3pamneuv
I'm at a secondary school for my youngest football game and spotted this on the canteen wall. Such excellent #climate education and leadership. I wish more restaurants would do this.
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I'm at a secondary school for my youngest football game and spotted this on the canteen wall. Such excellent #climate education and leadership. I wish more restaurants would do this.
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Come and join us in Brighton for Quaternary science and plenty of Geoarchaeology and the Palaeolithic archaeology too. Including an ECR workshop and a field trip to Birling Gap and Black Rock, all in my home city!
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QRA ADM in Brighton, abstract submission deadline 10th November!!! Submit your abstracts for a talk or a poster @quaternaryra.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Come and join us in Brighton for Quaternary science and plenty of Geoarchaeology and the Palaeolithic archaeology too. Including an ECR workshop and a field trip to Birling Gap and Black Rock, all in my home city!
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New fav artefact is either this silk viking bonnet from York, or Alfred's cake fungus from Star Carr used to curate an ember 11,000 yrs ago - something I tried with Explorer Scouts a few weeks ago (it works amazingly well!). #YorkshireMuseum spoiling us with exhibitions at the moment, do go visit!
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
New fav artefact is either this silk viking bonnet from York, or Alfred's cake fungus from Star Carr used to curate an ember 11,000 yrs ago - something I tried with Explorer Scouts a few weeks ago (it works amazingly well!). #YorkshireMuseum spoiling us with exhibitions at the moment, do go visit!
Travelling north from King's Cross for @archaeologyuk.bsky.social. Something about station war memorials - ordinary men with ordinary jobs so far from conflict who found themselves thrust into the horror of war. Thinking of them & all those currently caught in conflict around the world.
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Travelling north from King's Cross for @archaeologyuk.bsky.social. Something about station war memorials - ordinary men with ordinary jobs so far from conflict who found themselves thrust into the horror of war. Thinking of them & all those currently caught in conflict around the world.
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Did you know there's a website dedicated to helping you discover more about the archaeology and heritage cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk?
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Did you know there's a website dedicated to helping you discover more about the archaeology and heritage cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk?
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
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Chasing the money trail on legally processed treasure cases in England & Wales reveals the eye watering public expense of owning / buying heritage that belongs to the nation from the people who found it.
As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions
As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions
Following on from last week's blog on Treasure 'rewards', I've been trying to dig deeper into the numbers.
Although very preliminary, what I've found does not make for happy reading...
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/04/l...
Although very preliminary, what I've found does not make for happy reading...
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/04/l...
Looking for Treasure…
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Introduction Following on from my blog last week, I have been trying to find out exactly how much is being paid …
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Chasing the money trail on legally processed treasure cases in England & Wales reveals the eye watering public expense of owning / buying heritage that belongs to the nation from the people who found it.
As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions
As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions
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We're delighted to be working with MJC-Associates to record the graffiti & inscriptions at Stoneacre. The house is a medieval timber-framed building, with many later alterations to the fabric, including those undertaken by Aymer Vallance, who presented the house to the National Trust in 1928.
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We're delighted to be working with MJC-Associates to record the graffiti & inscriptions at Stoneacre. The house is a medieval timber-framed building, with many later alterations to the fabric, including those undertaken by Aymer Vallance, who presented the house to the National Trust in 1928.
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Amazing figures here that are seldom discussed or looked at wholesale. As always following the money shows the full scale of this with eye watering figures being paid from public funds to private individuals for artefacts that collectively belong to the nation
A system under strain morally corrupt
A system under strain morally corrupt
How do I get myself into this stuff?? 🤣
Trying to interrogate the Treasure figures when everything is reported many years later, and nothing is straightforward.
But, it's truly horrifying...
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#Archaeology
Trying to interrogate the Treasure figures when everything is reported many years later, and nothing is straightforward.
But, it's truly horrifying...
1/6
#Archaeology
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Amazing figures here that are seldom discussed or looked at wholesale. As always following the money shows the full scale of this with eye watering figures being paid from public funds to private individuals for artefacts that collectively belong to the nation
A system under strain morally corrupt
A system under strain morally corrupt
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Just finished writing my talk for this on Saturday. Should be a great day!
REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Just finished writing my talk for this on Saturday. Should be a great day!
@chichesterharbour have kept this quiet!
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
@chichesterharbour have kept this quiet!
Today I found an Ent
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Today I found an Ent
Important context for conversations about nature recovery and #wilding. Humans have always been part of #naturalprocesses, our response to the nature crisis must include people.
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On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared
Recent studies have highlighted evidence of human impact on landscapes dating back to the Late Pleistocene–long before the advent of agriculture. Quantifying the extent of vegetation transformations b...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Important context for conversations about nature recovery and #wilding. Humans have always been part of #naturalprocesses, our response to the nature crisis must include people.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Up in Newcastle with the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Centre for Landscape 'jamboree' hearing about the excellent work they have been doing over the past year. They are building a library of policy notes based on their research check them out... www.ncl.ac.uk/landscape/ou...
Policy Notes | Centre for Landscape | Newcastle University
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October 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Up in Newcastle with the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Centre for Landscape 'jamboree' hearing about the excellent work they have been doing over the past year. They are building a library of policy notes based on their research check them out... www.ncl.ac.uk/landscape/ou...
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We've got a little update from the excavations on the lawns of the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire.
Angus Wainwright, NT Archaeologist, says: "We teamed up with @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and Cambridge Archaeology Field Group to carry out this dig in front of hundreds of visitors." 🧵
Angus Wainwright, NT Archaeologist, says: "We teamed up with @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and Cambridge Archaeology Field Group to carry out this dig in front of hundreds of visitors." 🧵
October 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We've got a little update from the excavations on the lawns of the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire.
Angus Wainwright, NT Archaeologist, says: "We teamed up with @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and Cambridge Archaeology Field Group to carry out this dig in front of hundreds of visitors." 🧵
Angus Wainwright, NT Archaeologist, says: "We teamed up with @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and Cambridge Archaeology Field Group to carry out this dig in front of hundreds of visitors." 🧵